Fertility-Boosting Foods: What to Eat and Avoid While You Try to Get Pregnant

Opt for full-fat dairy

Low-fat dairy products such as milk and yogurt are connected with infertility, but a high-fat diet lowers the risk of infertility, according to a Harvard School of Public Health/Brigham and Women’s Hospital Nurses’ Health Study surveying more than 18,000 nurses. (The World Health Organization defines infertility as failing to conceive after 12 months of unprotected intercourse.) To make low-fat dairy products, the dairy is spun at high speeds, separating the watery and fat components. “The watery components draw more male hormones and the fatty draw more female hormones,” says Maizes. “So with whole milk, there’s a normal balance of hormones. But with non-fat, it’s a more male-pattern hormonal picture, which negatively affects fertility.”

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